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Urdegar, Steven M. – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2014
My Virtual Reading Coach (MVRC) is an online program for students who have been identified as struggling readers. It is used as an intervention within the Response to Intervention (RtI) framework, as well as for students with disabilities. The software addresses reading sub-skills (i.e., comprehension, fluency, phonemic awareness, phonics, and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Response to Intervention, Disabilities
Meisch, Allison; Hamilton, Jennifer; Chen, Eva; Quintanilla, Priscilla; Fong, Pauline; Gray-Adams, Karen; Petta, Ian; Thornton, Nancy – Westat, 2011
This report summarizes the results of the Newark, New Jersey, Striving Readers program for project Years 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. This report updates one analysis (3 years); the remainder of the impacts and implementation findings are for Year 4. The Striving Readers Grant addresses the unmet needs of middle school students reading 2 or more years below…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs, Program Evaluation, Intervention
Hudak, Tina – Library Media Connection, 2008
During the 1890s, the library media specialty was established through "a School Library Section as an integral part of the National Education Association" (Cole 90). In the ensuing decades, this role has expanded and changed; it demands a balancing act between the more traditional roles surrounding books and reading, and the newer expectations and…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Search Strategies, Educational Technology, Media Specialists